Karabükspor
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| Full name | Kardemir Demir Çelik Karabükspor |
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| Nickname(s) | Mavi Ateş (Blue Flame) |
| Founded | 1969 |
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Yenişehir Stadium Karabük, Turkey |
| Capacity | 12,400 |
| Chairman | Hikmet Ferudun Tankut |
| Manager | Zoran Barišić |
| League | Süper Lig |
| 2015–16 | TFF First League, 2nd (promoted) |
| Website | Club home page |
Kardemir Demir Çelik Karabükspor is a Turkish sports club based in Karabük, Turkey. The team was founded in 1969 after a merger between Karabük Gençlikspor and Demir Çelik Spor. The club has in branches in football, wheelchair basketball and volleyball. The nickname of the club is Mavi Ateş (Blue Flame). The nickname comes from unfading blue flame coming out of one of the chimneys of Kardemir iron-steel works which is located in the entrance of the city. As the factory gives its name to the club, the team is cited as a worker's team.
In the year 1938, Azmi Tılabar, the head manager of the Turkish iron-steel industry, founded DÇ Gençlik Kulübü (DÇ Youth Club) with grey-blue colours. In these times, the trainer of the football team was an English engineer, Mr. Lain. The trainer of atlhletism was Turkish athlete Faik Önen. Moreover, Mersinli Ahmet and Yaşar Doğu were trainers of wrestling.
During the 1940s, Karabükspor became a symbol in cycling, tennis and wrestling around Turkey. Starting in the 1950s, the Karabük Gençlikspor (Karabuk Youth Sports) joined DÇ Gençlik Kulübü and finally, the club got its colours as red-blue.
In the last game of the 1993–94 season against Zeytinburnuspor, Karabükspor relegated from the Süper Lig.
Karabükspor promoted to the top tier after winning the promotion play-off in the 1996–97 season. Karabükspor finished 8th in 1997–98. The next season, however, was disastrous for them as they again relegated to the second level.
Karabükspor relocated to the Second League B Category in the 2001–02 season.
The team was promoted to the First League in the 2007–08 season after a 7–0 win against Erzurumspor in the promotion group. On their 30th game of the 2009–10 season, they won 3–0 against Çaykur Rizespor which meant they were promoted to the Turkish Super League after 11 years.
The club are sponsored by the Kardemir company and the Iron workers unions from whom they draw a lot of their support, making it a club with true working class identity. Their ultra group is called Mavi Ateş (Blue Flame) and their motto is, Dumanlı kentin puslu çocukları (Sons of the smoky city).
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